Intern, Mystic Seaport, Mystic, CT

Posted January 29, 2018

Spend a summer on the Connecticut shore immersed in innovative museum programs, exhibition R&D, and visitor studies! Mystic Seaport, the nation’s leading maritime museum, recently opened an award-winning dramatic new building with a 5,000-square-foot exhibition hall and adjoining outdoor performance quad. We are seeking graduate-level students with experience working or volunteering in the museum field to join us in exploring the full potential of this new facility.

The Pre-professional Summer Internship, funded by The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts, provides participants with the opportunity to apply museum theory while gaining practical and marketable skills, in areas including exhibition research and development, strategic planning, “placemaking”/community building, and audience evaluation.

Interns will work collaboratively with leadership staff and other museum colleagues. Individual goals and organizational objectives will be established collaboratively at the start of the internship. Full-time intern positions will focus on one of three areas: public programs and performances, exhibition development and research, and audience participation and evaluation.

For more information and application instructions, please visit https://www.mysticseaport.org/about/internships-at-mystic-seaport/.